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yrsbrn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

sarahweyand's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Every time I finish a book, my husband will always ask what it was about. This is one of the few books where my answer is "How much time do you have?"; it's near impossible to give an easy synopsis of what I read here, but I do know that I enjoyed it.

This was a book about many things: family, love, loss, motherhood, perseverance, survival. It made me think about a lot of big questions without posing them directly or giving me an answer. The prose was wonderful to listen to (I enjoyed the audiobook), and the atmosphere felt like a dappled summer day, which is a nice change given that it's snowing outside.

Pacing here was medium-slow, especially because it was hard to tell where the plot was going at times. But I was always interested in listening and I felt like I really cared about our protagonist. I also really, really liked where this book ended. Perfect choice.

I'd definitely pick up something else by Shelley Read and will look out for future releases of hers! Give this one a read if you like historical fiction and heavy slice-of-life, introspective novels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Murder

krittabug's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

spaceforcewife21's review against another edition

2.0

This book was interesting enough. However, I just could not connect with it. I think it was a little bit of a pacing and lack of character development issue for me. There were times where I could feel myself being drawn into the story but they were quickly lost. It was a 3* for me until the end. The ending dragged and I found myself skimming to finish so I rated it a 2*.

I read somewhere that this was a debut novel. In that case, it was a decent debut.

gingernutpup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

springernichole3's review against another edition

5.0

I wanted to know SO much more at the end! What a delightful and yet sad story. I'm not sure why, but this book just felt different compared to other historical fiction. I really enjoyed this book!

isabellegfr's review against another edition

3.0

This book was beautifully written literary fiction. It felt slow, but maybe that’s just from me switching from fantasy to this. This book was very melancholy and there was a lot of foreshadowing, but it didn’t end how I thought it would which I think made it more interesting.

jesss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Murder

fernzommu's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

nattentiondeficit's review against another edition

1.0

This book is similar to Where the Crawdads sing, but even more boring.